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Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is just not true. We have the highest homeless figures ever.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Crisis? What crisis?

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: And a healthcare crisis.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: And a hospital crisis.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is what we are doing and-----

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: -----we are calling out the failure of the Government to house people. Over 11,000 people are on the streets in this country without homes.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister needs to explain how I did that.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: If the Minister can show us how he is really concerned about those social challenges, maybe we could talk about it.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Minister needs to show it.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Because they are connected.

Co-ordination of International Protection Services: Statements (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I will share time with Deputies Gino Kenny and Boyd Barrett. I will make a couple of comments on the opening speeches from the Taoiseach and Tánaiste, both of whom focused heavily on the role of the European Union, the great European Union we have, the shared agenda and co-operation in dealing with what they see as a Europe-wide problem. Indeed, we have many problems across the globe...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: On Tuesday Top Security, which has blocked a meagre wage increase for security workers for the last 21 months, will be in court in an attempt to continue to block that cost-of-living increase, which would bring all 15,000 security workers up to €12.90 per hour, which is not exactly a king's ransom for workers doing one of the most dangerous, most antisocial and toughest jobs in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: The Government has allowed it not to.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: That is an unbelievable answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I ask the Minister's pardon because my voice is a bit weak. I will use it, however, to say to the Minister that I do not believe the plan fulfils the legal requirement as he said because so many important sources are disputing this point with him. Examples include the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Professor John Sweeney, Professor Barry McMullin and An Taisce. They have all said...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: What the Minister is saying then is that this is all great on paper, that there is a lot of good research and ambition on paper, but the reality flies in the face of it. If we cannot intervene, for example, to cut agricultural emissions or to stop the proliferation of data centres because we live in a democracy, then this objective is going to be impossible to achieve.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: My point was not to deny that we needed it. Not at all. I said we needed it because of the proliferation of data centres and the amount of energy they guzzle from the national grid. It is totally out of kilter with any other state. They do not allow it to go to 15% or 16% of the national grid.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: Will the Minister comment on the EPA's report in the context of Ireland having the largest level of emissionsper capitain the EU up to the second quarter of 2022?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (15 Feb 2023)

Bríd Smith: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide the timeframe for the publication of the revised wind energy development guidelines and the reason for the significant delay in publishing it; if the regulations will bring us up to EU norms with regard to distance to turbines and noise levels; whether the Government will continue to outsource the...